The Big Shift: How to survive and thrive in the new Experience Economy
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the mywave vision | www.mywave.me The MyWave Vision The Big Shift: How to survive and thrive in the new Experience Economy More than 40 percent of today’s Fortune 500 companies will no longer exist a decade from now, writes MyWave founder and CEO Geraldine McBride. Four major ‘inflection points’ – the explosion in mobile devices, the radical change in the buying patterns and expectations of millennials, the ‘new normal’ of a post Global Financial Crisis world economy, and the rise of the ‘Experience Economy’ – are propelling a major shift in the way enterprises interact with customers – and vice versa. This White Paper looks at the drivers of Digital change and places MyWave’s technology in context for both enterprises and end users. THE BIG SHIFT The enterprise company topple-rate is increasing. Half a century ago, the average Fortune 500 company could expect to survive 75 years, today that has reduced to 14 years and declining. Further, it is forecast that more than 40% of today’s Fortune 500 companies will no longer exist a decade from now. Most CEO’s and Boards of major companies I speak with in USA, Europe and Asia Pacific all tell me, they can’t keep doing in the next four years what they were doing in the last four years. Their businesses are facing major inflection points. What is causing this big shift? In the global enterprise field I am working in, I am seeing 5 major factors driving this change: 1. There has been a global consumer revolution through the proliferation of mobile and tablet consumer devices. There is more power in the hands of the consumer or customer than at any time in the history of the planet. Customers know more about what they want and need than the average enterprise brand employee trying to serve them. 2. There is a major generational shift – the millennial generation (those born post 1986) are social digital natives. They are more different to any prior generation in expectations and behavior and enterprises generally have a hard time reaching them. They don’t just want to own “stuff”, they are looking for social, authentic and real experiences. 3. The global economy post the GFC of 2009 is in a ‘new normal’ its not going to get better anytime soon. The old commoditized or transactional way of relating to consumers or customers is no longer enough. Companies thriving in this new normal ©MyWave, 2014
the mywave vision | www.mywave.me have figured out how to create differentiating experiences that people will pay a premium for, to delight the segment of one (the individual, the one who pays you money) and entice customers to spend again. Test this question for your business, is it tough today in your business because of the economy or because your business model has not kept pace with rapid change, maybe losing relevance or being disrupted/ commoditized to a point where price is the only thing that matters? 4. Post the GFC there has been a shift to ‘The Experience Economy’– customer expectations are changing. We are moving to a post-industrial era where mass production, or transactions with heaps of undifferentiated “stuff” is no longer good enough. People are prepared to pay a premium for a great experience. There is huge value now in knowing ‘Who I am, what I like, what my friends like and where I am’. Location services matched with preferences has huge value in delighting customers or consumers. It’s the Experience Economy – Joe Pine has written a great book on this. Consumers will give permission to know more about ‘me’ in return for valid and useful experiences, products or services that give me value or delight the Segment of One. 5. Government Regulations – whether you are in the USA, Europe or Asia Pacific, government regulations are also driving change. THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION AND PORTER’S VALUE CHAIN Lets pause for a minute and think about today’s enterprise business processes. They are based on a 130-year old model from the Industrial Revolution and updated in more recent times in 1985 by Porter’s Value Chain. The challenge is that these models are serial and siloed, a typical value chain is unidirectional and directed ‘at’ the consumer or customer. A push-model. Typical Porter’s Value Chain Value chain Supply chain Demand chain Purchasing Manufacturing Distribution Marketing Sales Services In a tough economy there is tremendous waste in this value chain, whether it be Research & Development, New Product Introduction, Advertising, Promotions etc. Trillions of dollars are being spent trying to guess what people want based on old fashioned market segmentation and a serial value chain. Too often companies forget they exist not for themselves and their processes but for their customers or consumers and view the relationship as a transaction rather than an experience. Yet they also spend billions of dollars trying to guess what customers really want in an attempt to increase revenue and margins. Most company value chains operate as silos. In the Porter’s Value Chain, where is the customer, the empowered consumer leveraging cloud, mobile and tablet technologies? ©MyWave, 2014
the mywave vision | www.mywave.me Where is digitization and creating sticky amazing customer experiences that keep your customers coming back for more? Where is the connection with those Social Digital Natives – the Millennials who are your next generation of customer? These deficiencies are part of what is causing the enterprise topple rate of Fortune 500 companies to increase. NEW TECHNOLOGY ON OLD PRACTICES Most enterprises realize they need to change. But too often new technology is being deployed on old business practices and segmentation models – alienating customers rather than building strong customer relationships. CRM systems were built for B2B more than 13 years ago and being stretched for B2C. Privacy and trust is being eroded Marketing is less entertaining and more like pervasive spam People are starting to feel like New technology they are being spied upon coming at a cost The ‘value equation’ is missing for most consumers Multiple company data silos are creating a broken experience for consumers Old thinking enabled by new technologies is leading Enterprises to move from interrupt models to surveillance models where customer privacy and trust is being eroded. Marketing is less entertaining and more like pervasive spam. Customers are starting to feel like they are being spied upon through cookies, social network big data inferences and various location and tracking techniques. There is a building customer backlash where the top browser extensions being downloaded are those that block ads and thwart tracking and statistics show that 50% of data on social sites is faked. The value equation is missing for most consumers and multiple company data silos are creating broken experiences for their customers. ©MyWave, 2014
the mywave vision | www.mywave.me Relationships Integrator Supplier Manufacturer Consumer Distributor Retailer THE RELATIONSHIP MODEL – NEW TECHNOLOGY BASED ON NEW THINKING The best practice trend is moving away from interrupting, spamming and surveilling your customer to a relationship model built on a Customer Managed Relationship Platform rather than a Customer Relationship Management Platform. This moves an enterprise to being a Customer Driven Business where the customer or the consumer is at the centre – throwing out old segmentation thinking and building individual ‘segment of one’ customer relationships. Joe Pine describes customer centricity as “The one who pays you money placed at the center of everything you do.” The word “one” in that quote is a person, not a segment. This isn’t merely thinking about the customer as some amorphous set, but the company’s systems and processes need to be built so as to create rich, personalized relationships with each individual. This requires a new way of thinking in an enterprise, to: 1. Understand the customer, this is the only way to provide a consistent and valuable customer experience and allows for the identification of ‘jobs to be done’. 2. Break the data silos moving towards a single view of the customer and what we know about them. 3. Where your brand can help your customer gain value from their own data so your brand has a platform for continued growth. 4. Where the customer has shared ownership of that data, the customer should feel like it is theirs and are getting value from it and over time, shares more about themselves with your business because there is value in doing so. 5. Where a relationship is built with your customer based around trust and Mutual Value. ©MyWave, 2014
the mywave vision | www.mywave.me A new way of thinking Customer Gets Understand Break Data Customer Trust Value from the Customer Silos Ownership Mutual Value Own Data This is the only Thinking needs When a brand They must feel Customer data way to provide to be broken out can help their like it is theirs can no longer a consistent and of corporate data customers get and they are be viewed as value customer ownership and value from getting value intelligence to experience move towards their own data from it be collected and Allows for the aggregating ALL then that brand dissected identification of of a customer’s has a platform ’jobs to be done’ data for continued growth THE MYWAVE VISION FOR ENTERPRISES Customers or Consumers are looking for better experiences, enterprises serving them better, knowing what their needs are, what they want, what they like and their preferences. They are prepared to pay a premium for better and more personalized experiences. Enterprises are looking for deeper, stickier customer relationships that are more personalized with mass customization for economies of scale. They really do want to know what their customers want; they are seeking higher loyalty, lower costs to serve and more relevance. MyWave is in business to close the gap by both providing a Customer Managed Relationship platform and supporting consulting services to enterprises, while at the same time building and integrating the personal cloud ‘interface’ that individuals need for their own segment of one relationships with enterprises. MyWave’s consulting services are critical in helping enterprises re-imagine their customer experiences to become a customer driven business, combined with technology that enables this. MyWave CMR is powered by personal cloud technology where the customer owns their data through their CMR personal cloud delivered through a brand created mobile experience. The customer shares their data, preferences and communicates with the enterprise around what they need and want. MyWave helps enterprises create great sticky personalized relationships that keep the customer wanting to come back for more. It allows the enterprise to build trust and mutual value in each exchange. As discussed, today’s marketing budgets dwarf IT budgets. CMO’s are working with second‑hand inferred data that customers resent sharing and which is used to drive advertising and other promotional messaging that annoy customers with little choice to opt out, rather than truly engaging them. ©MyWave, 2014
the mywave vision | www.mywave.me CUSTOMER My Services My Needs What I Like What I want When I want it My Preferences MUTUAL VALUE ENTERPRISE Relationships Personalised Know what customer wants Lower cost to serve Higher loyalty New monetization models Relevance CRM is an $18bn industry almost entirely devoted to pitching, tracking and targeting at prospects rather than engaging with them. Time is now running out for enterprises dependent on old marketing paradigms. Marketing budgets can be spent far more wisely and effectively when enterprises have ways to engage customers directly, relevantly and continuously and to gain truly useful data and insights from the process. MyWave’s CMR platform leads the way into this new world of permission based customer relationships – no more stalking, unwanted ads and promotions or inferring. You KNOW your customers their needs and wants. It will deliver personalisation of experience Sales and content on any device, anywhere. It will enable direct realtime virtual service Relevant Offers Insight Services Marketing to customers improving experience and Crowd Sourcing Experiences Advocacy, Loyalty Segments of one reducing the cost to serve. It will give deep insight into customer Delightful Mass needs for recommendations and for Experiences MyWave Personalisation JTBD CMR practical segment of one new initiatives, Platform such as redefining loyalty programmes to R&D Ideation Custom or Distribution reward advocacy and engagement. Experiences vs. Things Standard, Fits Me Purchasing Manufacturing ©MyWave, 2014
the mywave vision | www.mywave.me MYWAVE’S VISION FOR CONSUMERS MyWave’s consumer vision is for an online world where individuals have control and ownership of their data and have the power to choose and create segment of one personal relationships based on Mutual Value. That means giving people the power to gather, control and use their data in one place; to see where they have been, what they have been doing and plan for what they want to do. It means giving individuals new ways to engage – not only with companies and people, but with the things they own or aspire to, or are interested in. Conversely, it means giving individuals the power to filter out the products and services and other personal and business clutter that wastes their time and energy. My My Airlines Bank My Restaurants My Work My Food My Brands MyWave My Pets My My life Friends My Fitness My Money My My Family Passions My My Health Things MYWAVE PERSONAL CLOUDS MAKE DATA COME ALIVE The data an individual generates describes who they are and what they do – up to a point. Typically, that data is held in enterprise company databases. It ages, is incomplete and is stored and used in ways designed to push products and services. But if individual customer data could be accurate, up to date, and – most important – be used with the individual’s personal ownership and permission, then that data can become alive and help individuals and enterprises build a highly personalised mutual value relationship. Take for example one category of personal data – physical fitness. Today fitness data is harvested by many different devices and stored in many different corporate silos. ©MyWave, 2014
the mywave vision | www.mywave.me The MyWave pCloud will look at all your fitness activity and diet data and give a single combined view on your own dashboard to help you drive the quickest and straightest route to your goals. You could, through opt in, share that data with your health insurer or life insurer and gain better premiums and an easier way to update and engage with your insurer creating a far better customer experience. With your permission, your insurer can use your data, that you own and maintain to customise other insurance services and products that suit your changing needs. You the customer own your data and share it at your discretion with companies with whom you want to build a mutual value relationship. Your ‘things’ can also have pClouds Using MyWave’s CloudBind, companies can also create clouds for their individual products. For example if you buy a new mountain bike it can be accompanied by its own personal cloud that you can access and customise to make it personal to you. These clouds would be unique to each unit and tied to serial numbers. These unique identification codes can be read by any mobile device. Any data the enterprise wishes to include such as operating manuals, warranties, URL’s for firmware, product recalls and other updates for live interactions can be included with the products’ own cloud. MyWave puts the individual at the controls MyWave’s Customer Relationship Management platform for enterprises, linked to its personal cloud applications for individuals, products and enterprises, lay the building blocks for a whole new world of online participation. The MyWave vision is of a world where the customer is firmly at the controls, managing their own data and choosing the products, the organisations, the companies, the people, and the physical ‘things’ they want in their online life. ©MyWave, 2014
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